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Re: switch is too limiting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Jacques Moreau)
Wed Oct 4 01:35:55 1995
From: "Jean-Jacques Moreau" <jjm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 12:43:42 +0000
In-Reply-To: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
"Re: switch is too limiting" (Oct 2, 10:07)
To: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff), lemayp@lne.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
On Oct 2, 10:07, Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> > switch (alignment) {
> > case "left" : {
> > // code to align stuff left
> > }
> > case "right" : {
> > // code to align stuff right
> > }
> > case "center" : {
> > // code to align stuff center
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Maybe in 2.0?
>
> I've always wanted that feature too. I'll see if we can get it
> added in Java 2.0.
Eiffel originally thought it could do without that feature. It ended up being
added by popular request...
Jean-Jacques Moreau.
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